Download or read book The Humours of Scottish Life Classic Reprint written by John Gillespie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Humours of Scottish Life This book has been written at the repeated solicitation of very many friends. Becoming acquainted to some extent with the repertoire of Scottish wit and humour which I happen to possess, they have often urged me to put it into a permanent form. I have not given it the title of Reminiscences, but it will be observed that many of the incidents are of that nature. They are illustrative of Scottish humour on the part of people in different grades of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scottish Life and Humor Classic Reprint written by William Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Life and Humor "Cauld kail het aain is aye pat tasted." A worthy old lady adds "Cauld kail het, humph! tastes as if the dishcloot had been boiled in it." Knowing that the flavour of that necessary though despised article of kitchen use cannot be eradicated from every page, I yet hope to provide some tasty and substantial farin' from the wealth of good things that abound, and which are discovered through following the proverbial Scotchman's advice to his son, when about to emigrate - "Aye be speirin'." The most successful book dealing with Scottish life and character has been Dean Ramsay's "Reminiscences," first given as a lecture in 1857, and then published in book form. "The Laird of Logan," "Thistledown," and quite a crowd of others have been devoted to the recording of humorous Scottish sayings, etc., and the weekly newspapers are always giving to the world some new Scottish "joke," which in due course is trotted out by some minister at a soiree, and compels another non-original remark - "There is nothing new under the sun!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Humours of Scottish Life written by John Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Scottish Life written by Charles Rogers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Century of Scottish Life: Memorials and Recollections of Historical and Remarkable Persons, With Illustrations of Caledonian Humour favour much beyond its deserts, I have been encouraged carefully to revise every portion of it. The entire arrange ment has been altered, the department more especially anecdotal recast, and much 'new matter added. Besides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Scottish Life and Character in Anecdote and Story Classic Reprint written by William Harvey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Life and Character in Anecdote and Story Scotland is proverbial -for its wit and humour, and the writer who seeks to illustrate Scottish character with stories drawn from the everyday life of the people is not likely to lament a lack of apposite material. Since Dean Ramsay issued his evergreen and unexcelled Remini scences many volumes on the subject have been published, but these, for the most part, are indiscriminate collections of jokes which, while they bear witness to the truth that Scotland is a land of humour, do little or nothing to illustrate native character. The present writer aims at supplementing the work of the genial Dean of Edinburgh rather than at following the col lectors of concocted witticisms. His endeavour is to illustrate the main features of our Scottish life, and he gives the anecdotes exactly as he found them - without comment or observation - leaving them to speak for themselves. The shrewdness, the wit, and the humour of the nation are treated in the volume which, the author hopes, will form a not-altogether valueless contribution to the literature of anecdote and story that pertains to the Land 0' Cakes, and will afford pleasure as well to the Scot at home as to the Scot abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scottish Life and Character Classic Reprint written by William Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Life and Character The scenes presented in these pages do not profess to be a complete survey of social life in Scotland; but it may be claimed for them that, in their subject-matter, they are typical of the Scottish nation. There are peers in Scotland, as well as peasants, castles as well as cottages; and the habits of thought and manner among the classes of the North differ as much as they differ in England, or in any other ancient civilisation. Still, as Disraeli said, it is the humble in our realm that is most abiding in national characteristics; which thought is the justification, should any be deemed necessary, for these pages. The List of Illustrations contains the names of the owners of the paintings which have been reproduced in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Classic Reprint written by E. B. Ramsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Scottish Life and Character, might, in fact, almost have been issued as a new work, so much are the former materials enlarged by the introduc tion of fresh anecdotes, kindly contributed from various quarters, by the account of Scottish pro verbs, and by Other additions. The field of inquiry for such reminiscences is very extensive, and I am convinced is far from being yet exhausted. But I fear the labourers are growing few. We are constantly hearing of the death of some person who, it is said, was possessed of a rich store of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reminiscences od Scottish Life Character written by Dean Ramsay and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Scottish Life Character Classic Reprint written by Dean Ramsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Scottish Life Character The friends of Dean Ramsay desiring a memorial of his life, his friendly publishers, and his nearest relatives, have asked me to undertake the work, and placed in my hands some materials giving authentic facts and dates, and illustrating the Dean's own views on the leading events of his life. I feel myself excluded from dealing with one im portant part of such a life, for I could not take upon me to speak with confidence or authority upon church doctrines or church government. On the other hand, for the man I have that full sympathy which I sup pose ought to exist between the writer and the subject of the biography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Irish Life and Humour in Anecdote and Story Classic Reprint written by William Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Irish Life and Humour in Anecdote and Story "Scottish Life and Character in Anecdote and Story" was received with so much favour, alike by press and public, that the author formed the idea of preparing a similar volume illustrative of the wit and humour so characteristic of the Land of the Shamrock. This has now been done, and the author hopes that the book will be as cordially welcomed as was the earlier work. In its preparation many volumes dealing with the subject have been laid under contribution. Newspaper and magazine articles have been drawn upon freely. Of his indebtedness to all these the author here makes due acknowledgment. His endeavour has been to illustrate the main features of Irish character, and as a general rule he has given the anecdotes exactly as he found them - without comment or observation - leaving them to speak for themselves. A notable feature of the book is the series of splendid illustrations in colour. The pictures are reproduced with remarkable fidelity from studies by the late Erskine Nicol, R.S.A., the Scottish painter, who was so eminently successful in his interpretation of Irish life and character. The author hopes that the volume - compiled by a Scot, and illustrated by a Scot - will give pleasure to Irishmen at home and abroad, as well as to many who cannot claim to have been born in the Emerald Isle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The humours of Scottish life written by John Gillespie (Minister of Mouswald.) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glennair Or Life in Scotland Classic Reprint written by Helen Hazlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Glennair, or Life in Scotland I shall assuredly enroll you among the insane, if you insist on braving this tempest, Duncan; and must exert my influence with your sister, to pre vent her accompanying you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Call the Nurse written by Mary J. MacLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.
Download or read book The Writer s Clerk Or the Humours of the Scottish Metropolis Vol 2 of 3 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Writer's Clerk, or the Humours of the Scottish Metropolis, Vol. 2 of 3 My friends know of it, they are happily impressed with the idea that I am suc cessfully fixed in a permanent situation. They will never dream of the possibility of my being found unqualified for it. Should Mr. Mandate find me incapable of fulfilling the duties of the office, he will certainly discharge me, or I shall be ashamed myself to occupy a respectable situation, for which I am utterly unfit. What woful tidings will these be to my friends! It will be ten times worse than if I had never got a situation or had the smallest prospect of getting one, for it will manifest my total disqualification for clerkship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
